Fun Facts

Questions:

• A peanut is not a nut.
• It's possible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Shooting stars are not stars-- they are meteors.
• Edwin Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon.
• No beverage is drinkable after a nuclear fallout.
• j

Answers:

• TRUE - Peanuts are indeed classified as legumes and not nuts.
• TRUE - The nose and eyes are linked by cranial nerves, so the stimulation from the sneeze travels up one nerve to the brain, then down another nerve to the eyelids, triggering a blink for most people. However, it's possible for some people to sneeze with their eyes open.
• TRUE - Shooting starts might look like stars that quickly shoot across the sky, but they are not stars. Shooting stars are actually what astronomers call meteors. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the ground. So yeah, the things you wish upon aren't real stars.
• TRUE - This guy's often forgotten, so let's give him the spotlight for a while, shall we? Edwin "Buzz"Aldrin is an American engineer and a former astronaut, and the second man to set foot on the moon. And maybe he was destined to go to the moon, as coincidentally, his mother's maiden name is 'Moon'.
• FALSE - In the 1956 the US government placed beer near a nuclear explosion to see whether it would still be drinkable after a nuclear fallout. It was.
• FALSE - j